Lifetime’s controversial movie, “Aaliyah: Princess of R&B,” caused several related terms to trend on Twitter during its debut on Saturday night.

The trending topics included “#AaliyahMovie”; “Missy and Timbaland,” referring to Aaliyah’s longtime producing partners; “RKelly,” her producer and husband by a marriage that was later annulled; and Wendy Williams, the talk show host who joined the project as an executive producer amid controversy, among other terms.

The huge amount of social activity surrounding the movie is the good news for Lifetime. The bad news is that many of the tweets were harsh. At one point in the evening, “#LifetimeDisrespectsAaliyah” was a trending topic, for example.

Executive produced by Williams, Howard Braunstein and Debra Martin Chase, the two-hour movie is based on Christopher John Farley’s bestselling book “Aaliyah: More Than a Woman.” It charts Aaliyah’s life from the age of 10 when she appeared on “Star Search,” the path to her first album and R. Kelly, her meteoric rise and then to age 22 when she died in a plane crash in 2001.

Here’s a sample of the tweets that filled Twitter timelines while the movie aired: